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# Bright light city, gonna set my soul
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# Gonna set my soul on fire... #
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In the years before he opened in Las Vegas,
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both Elvis and the city had sunk to a low ebb.
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He, stuck in a mire of banal movies.
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Vegas, recovering from decades of mob rule.
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But all that would change when Elvis arrived in 1969
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at the International Hotel.
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There was a coolness factor, a hip factor that I think Las Vegas obtained
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because of Elvis being here and changing the image of the city.
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It was a marriage made in heaven.
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Marrying Elvis with Vegas was the master plan of Colonel Tom Parker,
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his manager.
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Yet their moment of triumph had the seeds of destruction.
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Elvis realised he needed the Colonel.
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And the Colonel was a very forthright person.
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You had two very powerful personalities.
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# Viva Las Vegas With your neon flashing
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# And your one armed bandits... #
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He loved being Elvis Presley, there's no doubt about that.
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But he loved it when he was great, he loved himself, loved his music.
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Loved everything that he was doing. Who could blame him?
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But I think he started to dislike himself,
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and lost his desire to be Elvis Presley.
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# So if your baby leaves